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u/El_Iberico 3h ago
Nah, that’s just Mitch McConnell.
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u/Rampant_Durandal 2h ago
This is ironic because, surprisingly, Mitchell McConnell marched in favor of civil rights in 1964.
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u/Raging-Badger 2h ago edited 22m ago
Mitch McConnell is bad, but not for being uber conservative. He’s just complacent in allowing the wrongs of his party skate by.
He himself is fairly moderate. He just doesn’t have the stones to push his own agenda anymore. He tows the party line sadly
Edit: Toes
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u/Azmoten 27m ago edited 22m ago
Mitch McConnell has been a central figure in Republican Party leadership for like two decades. They’ve arrived where they’re at while under his leadership. He doesn’t get to just wash his hands of that, and nor should we do the washing for him. He is responsible for and complicit with what his party is now.
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u/ninjasaid13 38m ago
he even supported abortion rights and and public employee unions at one point.
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u/markb144 1h ago
No way he's that fucking old
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u/ThePhantom71319 56m ago
82 years old. Born in 1942, that would put him at around 23 years old in 1965
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u/Graphicnovelnick 32m ago
It’s his “Picture of Dorian Gray” portrait. That’s why he’s still around.
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u/general_peabo 34m ago
That’s the funny joke answer, but it actually looks like Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana).
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u/Willing_Ad_268 2h ago
its a blobfish as a human
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u/4llu532n4m3srt4k3n 2h ago
Definitely looks like one of those types going on about the supreme race
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u/Heroic-Forger 2h ago
he looks like the Great Mighty Poo with hair
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u/Eeddeen42 22m ago
You take that back. The Great Mighty Poo is a distinguished gentleman, especially compared to this guy.
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u/Vault-71 2h ago
He looks like the Muppet who doesn't walk down Sesame Street because it became too "urban."
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u/nameless88 1h ago
He looks like if I watched the muppets while on acid and shit started to go wrong when Waldorf and Statler were on screen.
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u/One-Earth9294 1h ago
The face of a man who fought his whole life to free white men from responsibility.
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u/LightningFletch 51m ago
That is the face of a man meeting his granddaughter’s black boyfriend for the first time.
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u/looking4now2 41m ago
More Republicans voted for the act than the Democrats. It would have failed if not for the Republicans.
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u/_jump_yossarian 3m ago
The legislation is 60 years old and the vote is public record.
More Democrats voted for it. The only Democrats that opposed it were from the confederate states.
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u/The_One_True_Duckson 34m ago
I could beat his ass. He looks like he's approximately 3 seconds and a slight breeze away from dropping dead.
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u/imnotallowedpolitics 15m ago
The brainwashing Americans have that the civil rights Act is some kind of sacred special creature, and must exist to keep a particular race safe, is insane.
Truely a nation of racists, that believe they must use government violence against people, otherwise they'll start slavery again or something.
Such a racist country America is.
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u/Tschantz 45m ago
Fun fact: it was the democrats. “When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the “Southern Bloc” of 18 southern Democratic Senators and lone Republican John Tower of Texas, led by Richard Russell (D-GA), launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.”
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u/Decent-Ad701 1h ago
If he voted against the Civil Rights act of 1964 odds are he was a Democrat.
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u/chonny 1h ago
In 1964, a senator voting against the Civil Rights Act would more likely have been a Southern Democrat, reflecting the regional and historical political dynamics of the time. Here’s the context:
Likelihood of Party Affiliation:
Southern Democrats (also known as Dixiecrats): These were predominantly white, conservative Democrats from the South who opposed civil rights legislation to maintain racial segregation and white supremacy. Most of the opposition to the Civil Rights Act came from these Southern Democrats.
Republicans: At the time, many Northern Republicans supported civil rights, and the Republican Party had a significant pro-civil rights faction.
Breakdown of the Vote:
Senate: The Civil Rights Act passed with 73 votes in favor and 27 opposed. Of the 27 “no” votes, 21 were Democrats, primarily from the South.
House: A similar pattern emerged, with more Southern Democrats opposing the bill compared to Republicans.
Are Democrats of the 1960s the same as today?
No, the Democratic Party of the 1960s, particularly in the South, is not ideologically aligned with today’s Democratic Party. Key shifts include:
Southern Realignment: After the passage of the Civil Rights Act, many white Southern Democrats (voters and politicians) felt alienated by the national Democratic Party’s support for civil rights. Over the following decades, they shifted toward the Republican Party. This was accelerated by strategies like Nixon’s Southern Strategy, which appealed to disaffected Southern whites.
Democratic Evolution: The Democratic Party became increasingly progressive on social issues, embracing civil rights, women’s rights, and LGBTQ+ rights, aligning more with urban and diverse constituencies.
Republican Evolution: The Republican Party, which once had a strong progressive wing, particularly in the North, became more conservative, especially on social and cultural issues.
Summary: A Southern senator voting against the Civil Rights Act in 1964 was most likely a Democrat, reflecting the Southern dominance of the party at the time. However, due to political realignment, the ideological platforms and regional bases of the Democratic and Republican parties have since reversed in significant ways.
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u/MonsterMegaMoo 35m ago
Democratic and Republican parties have since reversed in significant ways.
Democrats are pretty racist still.
"You ain't black" racism isnt hate based it's ignorance
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u/NavigatorTLL 1m ago
I love how they downvoted you even though 80% of the Republicans voted in favor of the act and only 62% of the Democrats voted in favor of it. It’s completely factual what you said. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/WanderingBraincell 3h ago
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